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[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

This has well and truly f*ucked up any growth that Rachel from accounts was hoping for.

[Sir Tigger KC]

It just shows the complete and utter stupidity of burdening British businesses with excess taxation and regulation.

To be able to deal effectively with adverse global events that wash over us from time to time the country needs to be flexible, agile, and match fit.

In recent years despite Brexit, Whitehall seems to have enthusiastically taken up where the EU left off with the imposition of red and green tape, the Tories jacked up Corporation Tax by 30% just when many businesses were struggling to get off their knees after Covid, and in a couple months Labour destroyed what business and consumer confidence there was with their relentless doom and gloom narrative, then the massive tax hikes in Rach from Complaints dreadful budget, the increase in the minimum wage and the Ginger Growler's new employee rights regulations.

Far from match fit, Britain is an obese couch potato. 

[STEMO]

He's made a right mess of the markets. Oil price is a welcome drop, though

[Sir Tigger KC]

Well we'll see how this all pans out, but it could be a boon for America Inc. in the long term as their goods become cheaper than imports, and once the initial hysteria subsides, I expect the markets in the US at least will recover.

There have been a few big companies like Taiwan Semiconductors, Eli Lilly and our very own Rolls Royce (Aviation) who have said that they will expand their US operations in response.

It will obviously be painful for the parts of GB Plc who sell their products to customers in the USA.    Although they will be more competitive than their counterparts in the EU, and other countries with higher tariffs.

[Sir Tigger KC]

https://www.reuters.com/business/autos-transportation/gm-increase-us-truck-production-following-trumps-tariffs-2025-04-03/

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

JCB is 'supposedly' doubling the size of it's planned new factory in Texas.

[Varche]

Not any new tariffs on Russia.

Nice to see Starmer has a counter list of products to tariff . Insects, Pineapples etc. Trump will be cowering.


Good news . The USA is going to stick with being in NATO but expects member countries to spend 5% of GDP. Good luck getting even Britain , let alone Italy, Spain and Belgium to do that. Where will Britain get it’s steel from to build hardware.

[Sir Tigger KC]

Not any new tariffs on Russia.

Nice to see Starmer has a counter list of products to tariff . Insects, Pineapples etc. Trump will be cowering.


Good news . The USA is going to stick with being in NATO but expects member countries to spend 5% of GDP. Good luck getting even Britain , let alone Italy, Spain and Belgium to do that. Where will Britain get it’s steel from to build hardware.

Chinaaaa! 

[redelitev6]

I see Farage is strangely silent on his best buddy shafting the UK

[STEMO]

I see Farage is strangely silent on his best buddy shafting the UK

We haven't been shafted. Well, only half as shafted as the EU, and only a quarter as shafted as some places.
I think it's that American consumer who's been properly shafted.

[Migv6 le Frog Fan]

I see Farage is strangely silent on his best buddy shafting the UK

We haven't been shafted. Well, only half as shafted as the EU, and only a quarter as shafted as some places.
I think it's that American consumer who's been properly shafted.

No he hasnt. He spoke about it last night. 

[Sir Tigger KC]

Interesting that  US 10 year Treasury Bond yields have tumbled from 4.8% in January to 3.95% currently, which saves the US taxpayer hundreds of millions in interest payments on America's massive debt pile of around $36.5 trillion.

The biggest drop has happened in the last week from 4.4%, probably as investors have dumped stocks and moved into 'safe haven' bonds instead.

[Doctor Gollum]

Bonds are a fools errand. The fact they're falling points to growth elsewhere.

[Marks DTM Calib]

Its interesting that the idiot has even applied Tariffs to the likes of the Falkland Islands at 42% and also some uninhabited islands

[Mr Skrunts]

Interestingly I saw on the news that as the stock market has dropped that Gold prices hit an all time high on Monday and then increased again on Tuesday.